While Alex has dealt rather masterfully with the consequences of the trumped-up Russian SCADA hacking incident, I’d like to point to a different aspect of it: the cybersecurity “wake up call.” The Springfield incident was immediately called a “wake up call” for cybersecurity practitioners. Of course, we now know that it was not a cyberRead… Read more »
The Roku brings Streaming Video Directly to your Living Room On a whim, I recently picked up a Roku XD player from Woot.com. The Roku allows you to tap into a lot of the video going around on the “interwebs” and watch it on your HDTV of choice. The Roku is one of the devicesRead… Read more »
Editor’s note: This post by Derek Singleton of Software Advice reviews more extensive work at: Enterprise Software History, Part 2: Minicomputers to the PC. A while back, I kicked off a series recounting the history of ERP software. In my first post I covered the time spanning from punched cards to the mainframe. If you’llRead… Read more »
Editor’s Note: We were treated to demos of Cloudera Enterprise 3.7 at Hadoop World, and it really blew us away with its functionality for total lifecycle management of Hadoop Clusters. That lifecycle management includes planning, creation of clusters, management of their health, control of access, logging/auditing and many other tools, all put together in aRead… Read more »
The Kindle Fire outsold all expectations Yesterday, I read a great article over at GigaOM about how the Kindle Fire has become “The Next Big Haven for Developers.” (Check it out here). Apparently, Amazon’s Appstore (with 1-click purchasing) as well as the number of Kindle Fire devices sold (said to be over 5M), have madeRead… Read more »
On Monday, December 5, Bob Gourley went on the Enterprise CIO Forum to explain Big Data and why it matters. First, he defined Big Data simply as the data your organization cannot currently analyze. Though some technologists give more precise definitions, this sums up the challenge enterprises now face. If you can deal with allRead… Read more »
Editor’s note: This is an official release from US Cyber Command reposted here for your information. Approximately 300 attend week-long training By Col. Rivers Johnson U.S. Cyber Command Public Affairs Officer The U.S. Cyber Command, whose mission is to operate and defend the Department of Defense networks, recently conducted its first major tactical cyber exerciseRead… Read more »
Android exploits present a problem for enterprise and Gov’t adoption of Android Android is a great mobile computing platform. It’s extensible, fairly easy-to-use (considering its plethora of features), has a great application store with hundreds of thousands of applications, and connects back with everything in Google so that all of Google’s information and services areRead… Read more »
I’ve previously posted the below, but it is a favorite story, one of leadership, vision, experience and mastery of art and science and my hope is that even of you have thought these lessons through in the past you might want to check them out again. The lessons probably apply to many enterprise teams, butRead… Read more »
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